The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (Orange: 2015, rent, buy)

[Onhollywoodblvd]

Homeless Formula:

Weather+Weak Unenforced Laws+Liberal Handouts+Everyone's a Victim Attitude=Third World Los Angeles (except for the wealthy-yet-liberal NIMBY neighborhoods).

[Upstateman92]

Have about 20 grand in my savings thinking of quiting my Job and reaping the benefits of being homeless in LA and enjoy the weather. Feel like with that amount of money I would be some kind of king or god to them in these encampments

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by Upstateman92

Have about 20 grand in my savings thinking of quiting my Job and reaping the benefits of being homeless in LA and enjoy the weather. Feel like with that amount of money I would be some kind of king or god to them in these encampments

California Dreaming 2.0

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Fael

Any reason?

One of the reasons that have contributed to the recent rise in homelessness: evictions.

L.A. homeless crisis grows despite political promises, many speeches and millions of dollars. How do we fix this?

[CALGUY]

"And who is going to pay for all this Bob? You?"

The funds for the homeless were already allocated by a vote of the people.

Problem is, government is spending it in the wrong places.

Bob.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by BlinkingBlythe

So who is going to make those $8 lattes? Who will make deliveries? Who will do janitorial work?

Teenagers, as used to be the case when the illegal population was smaller.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by streetscenes

I don't think it would be constitutional to forcibly move a homeless person from LA to the AV just because that's where you have built the housing for them.

It would not be constitutional to NOT move them to where the housing is, according to the 9th Circuit.

[majoun]

Cut the programs and goodies and then the homeless will disappear.

Require background checks and tests for hard drugs in order to recieve any homeless services, which the homeless themselves would pay for. Maybe loyalty oaths, too. The demand for those services would rapidly shrink and the homeless problem would diminish.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by majoun

Cut the programs and goodies and then the homeless will disappear.

Require background checks and tests for hard drugs in order to recieve any homeless services, which the homeless themselves would pay for. Maybe loyalty oaths, too. The demand for those services would rapidly shrink and the homeless problem would diminish.

Yeah we need to get tougher. Unfortunately human nature is that people will get away with what they know they can get away with.

[CA4Now]

As Los Angeles politicians face mounting pressure to combat the homelessness crisis, the City Council is weighing two measures aimed at clearing obstacles to getting more people into housing.

But the proposed laws have stirred up concerns among critics who fear they will muzzle neighbors or concentrate homeless housing into specific neighborhoods.

L.A. considers cutting through red tape to get homeless people housed faster